website research

In todays lesson we started our preliminary website research in which we had to annotate four different school website and comment on the layout, colours, rollovers, navigation bar and links. I found that all websites were easy to use and each had a very clear  layout. the colour schemes of the websites were consistent throughout, however they were mostly plain primary colours. Images were clearly placed on each of the home pages on the websites, and they were clear and astheticly pleasing images. the logo's of the schools were usualy at the top of the home page and all other pages to keep the websites consistent throughout. the links and navigation bars on each school website, were simple and easy to use; some websites had drop down navigation bars making them a bit more complex, however they were still easy to use overall. 

using a camera introduction and photoshop

Today we took photo's of one another to experiment with on photoshop. To get the black and white effect that I have on my image, I put the picture into photoshop, duplicated the layer so that I did not lose the original image. I then desaturated the image to get all the colour out of it, and then changed the levels to make it smoother and lighter.

13th January

In todays lesson we were introduced to the production side of the media and were told about the work that needed to be completed throught the rest of the year. In order to keep up to date with our work we set up blogs on blogger to post images and work and also a day to day diary of each lesson.